UK to say goodbye to ‘junior doctors’ as medical profession ditches ‘demeaning’ title
Aussie doctors agree they'd like a rebrand too, saying the term 'creates a mistaken impression'.
Doctors in the UK will ditch the term ‘junior doctor’ and use the title ‘resident’ instead following a long debate on whether the reference to a doctor being a ‘junior’ is demeaning and misleading.
The British Medical Association (BMA) says it will formally adopt the change in September.
“There is nothing junior about what we do and there never has been,” the it’s junior doctors committee said recently.
While the BMA toyed with the idea of calling all junior doctors just ‘doctors’, this was rejected as confusing.
